Apparently Trump actually rejected funding for the wall, because he believes the federal workers are Democrats. https://mobile.twitter.com/funder/status/1083482231841214466 So he would prefer to keep government closed purely because he wants to harm Democrats. His supporters will overlook it though...

Tried making mushroom risotto variation where you partially cook it in a pressure cooker with less water. (Let's you have non mushy rice every day cuz you can finish cooking individual portions)Tldr ended up making risotto Al salto. :( I forgot to reduce the cooking time by25%, but I think the bigge...

Wait, how much of the current walls get stolen each year? https://www.google.com/amp/s/foreignpolicy.com/2009/08/27/mexican-thieves-try-to-steal-border-fence/amp/ There are reports, but no indication on how prevalent it is. Part of it there isn't very much fencing, and the mileage that is fenced is...

Okay, but there's no way they could keep this up for 2 years though right? There are plenty of things that would pressure both sides to come to the table like tax refunds being delayed, or parks not being cleaned.... Unless politicians start patching only the squeaky wheels. So tax refunds start fl...

You guys do remember that Congress can overrule a Presidential veto, right? If Trump remains intransigent, then a sufficient number of Republicans must vote in favor of passing the funding bill to make a two-thirds majority. Goven that the content of the bill is literally the same as one that they ...

Well CU is cheating because he's combining Bush, Reagan with Clinton and Obama. Was Bush worse than Trump? No, but he had an awful reign with torture (Guantanamo, extraordinary rendition, Iraq death toll), and the corruption symbolized by Cheney. Reagan had all sorts of problems, despite how he's de...

And you would trust anything that came out of Obama's, Bush's, Clinton's, Bush's, or Reagan's mouths at face value? Probably not, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were telling the truth, or at least had a grasp of nuance in how they answer the question. Trump's been notable for the ... blitherin...

Can't villains just be villains anymore? It just seems like these movies today just try way too hard to give the guy wanting to mass murder a motive that is somehow relate-able and reasonable. The problem is, no reasonable person (entity, god, whatever) looks at a problem and thinks "This is t...

How sad is it that we are at a point where it is generally accepted that the president of our country isn't to be trusted to his word? Even the (non-cultish) republicans I've met understand this, yet still to support him due to "policy" Lalala I can't hear you over the sounds of babies an...

Incels are awful, but it takes people a moment to understand why. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/09/rosenstein-step-down-new-attorney-general-1089200 In other news, rosenstein is stepping down when Trump's pinky-swear-he's-neutral attorney general is confirmed. Welp, there goes the Mueller c...

This comic was sponsored by the HD display industry. You don't need anti-aliasing with 8K. Well that got outdated in 5 minutes. There are still podcasts out there that don't have ads in them, right? The only ones without ads are either selling you something intrinsically or public radio. Podcas...

Or He might need Congressional approval at some point to issue sanctions like that but I'm not sure. Trump is capital-H He now? like Jesus, Helium and He-Man? Phones are hard to edit, cut me some slack. :/ Polling indicates that the longer this goes on, the more it shifts towards he said she said. ...

Obviously we couldn't just sent them an invoice, Of course you can. Or more typically, you could seize Mexican assets abroad, and Mexico will not be able to stop this. For example, the US has decided that Iran should pay 2.7 billion dollar in damages to the families of US soldiers who were killed i...

That reminded me of Trump's definition of a border wall with Mexico. The supporters would try to rationalize it, 'he means virtual wall, with tools and drones' or talk about how it's a negotiation tactic. And then Trump talks more, and you realize the Trump really expects a wall made of rocks along ...

I'm not sure what the differentiation is for "pub burgers," unless you mean "not fast food burgers." Honestly I've never had a fast food burger on brioche, nor have I had many of this type of burger in general, so my assessment may be skewed towards more "high end burgers.&...

[Trump was elected largely on his promise to build a border wall to secure the southern border, and he's confident the rest of the country wants security. Schumer and Pelosi don't care whether the border is secure or not as long as they can make Trump look bad.. Where are you getting information on...

Brioche already has about 40% of the flour weight as butter*, which in buns and as french toast does not give it much ability to soak in Egg or burger juices without becoming a stodgy, buttery mess. It's also quite a delicate bread, due to it's high quantity of enrichment, and is hard to have it ho...

This isn't really something new. My hometown has been doing this since 2003. (After I'd moved away of course...) https://www.ci.sandy.or.us/SandyNet/ As I recall it was originally because the big ISP's like comcast refused to serve the rural areas around town so they decided to do it themselves. My...

Are we including couch-surfers as part of the homeless population? You're being flippant, but the answer heavily depends on the study. These nuances matter because a homeless population (and the resources to combat it) can vary. I do remember that study about solving homelessness by giving them hom...

The thing that surprised me was the sharp disparity between two very wealthy Democratic coastal states. Why would ny spend twice as much California on sheltering the homeless? Am I assuming people care more, or is this merely bureaucratic inertia that ny mandated this decades ago, and nobody noticed.

previously Claimed that California's homeless population is due to other states shipping homeless West. http://theconversation.com/why-there-are-so-many-unsheltered-homeless-people-on-the-west-coast-96767 Most people experience homelessness close to where they lost their housing. the high rate of h...

I am afraid of making political beliefs, of any kind, illegal. Even Trump has not yet done this. Also, I set a higher bar than "not worse than what the Trump administration has done" when deciding what I think the government should do. I hope most people do the same. Interesting, using la...

] Umm, wouldn't that be fascism? Like, at a far worse level than anything Trump has done? What are you afraid of that's worse than what the Trump administration has done? Demonization of a minority group (Nazis), Mass incarceration of Nazis? Terrified Nazis who hide from government officials? You'r...

There's an automated rover long distance travel mod, which simulates driving across a plannet. Bon voyage is the mod. Normally, I have it drive the majority, and manually control it for points of interest. 30km is a lot of tedium given the interface.

It's actually an interesting thing. If the partial shutdown lasts for, say, half a year, many of those workers will be forced to find other employment because landlords and banks are not known for being all that understanding as to why the rent/mortgage-payment is delayed by a few months. When the ...

Corn chowder, with some bacon. I’m going to cook some bacon and chop it for a garnish, then fry small diced potatoes in the fat to add in. Maybe some small diced red pepper? Right now it’s very beige. I'm undecided about Instagramable/pretty food. For one thing, it hurts the ugly but tasty dishes l...

So... from Trump's POV... Having the shutdown/veto/hissy-fit now that the Dems take over the House means that, worst case scenario, for the next two years the Dems get absolutely nothing passed. In the meantime, without a budget, the non-crucial portions of government are shutdown; portions that te...

Made vegan caramel for the first time last night. I think that turned out reasonably well. Unfortunately I then tried to make it into turtle bark and the end result is really difficult to break. The caramel just really wants to be stretchy as opposed to breaking. Also finished the chocolate covered...

The rarity goes both ways, no? Mass shootings are rare, but apparently so are bad outcomes from having armed teachers. Even rarer, as far as I can tell. It's basically just people who bring a gun to work, take some trainings once in while that they might even enjoy, and eventually they retire witho...

Are these trainings really about the kids? I get the impression they (and some part of gun carrying in general) are more a panacea to reduce anxiety. Of the gun carriyng teachers, or school leaders, or parents. People who read the news about school shootings and now picture them happening at their ...

that's not really true. if you arm teachers you have an armed person, ready to shoot kids, in every classroom. a single police officer is much less likely to be in the right place should the need arise. (and if i were a student on a killing spree, i'd make sure to start with them) also, a police of...

Got invited to a vegetarian party, so I made tofu spring rolls. The tamarind sauce was a hit. I heard she was struggling to get tasty vegetarian food on a regular basis. https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2016/03/easy-vegan-crispy-tofu-spring-rolls-recipe.html I like the flavor, but setting up the ...

Unless you're training them poorly -- in which case, it can be better to have never been trained at all. Which seems to be the case with pretty much every police officer in the United States. While Im sure most people here will agree police training is lacking, I’d like to see some evidence that it...

You can point out when they've made the wrong choice and let them try again, but at the end of the day there really isn't any way to "correct" the fact that humans sometimes make bad choices under high stress. Yes you can. SWAT, military, and (ideally) police can function in a stressful e...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-killed-much-of-obamacare-without-repealing-it/ The affordable Care act has been mostly killed, but without much fanfare via a connected efforts of lots of smaller groups attacking it. The recent ruling overturning it is merely a capstone. 1. Fourteen ...